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Play to the crowd
Answer for the clue "Play to the crowd ", 10 letters:
grandstand
Alternative clues for the word grandstand
- A stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof
- Terraced block of seats commanding the best view of a sporting event
- Play up to the spectators
- Stadium's seating area
- Stadium section
- Terrific place to buy lemonade?
- Place for fans
- Hot dog
Word definitions for grandstand in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The seating area at a stadium or arena; the bleachers. 2 The audience at a public event. vb. (context intransitive English) To behave dramatically or showily to impress an audience or observers; to pander to a crowd.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the audience at a stadium or racetrack a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof [syn: covered stand ] v. perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an ...
Usage examples of grandstand.
But Lance glanced at the brightly painted big rig, at the empty grandstands and the suites in turn one nonetheless.
Goblin Dreams Most county fairs have horse races in addition to livestock shows, carnivals and kootch dancers, so most fairgrounds have locker rooms and showers under their grandstands, for the convenience of jockeys and sulky drivers.
The year before, she had made an excuse to leave the grandstand while the arrows flew toward the poor papingo that struggled, wings wildly flapping, to escape into the sky.
Between grandstand and platform, but somewhat farther to the rear, a small cast-iron temple with chain garlands and a mushroom roof.
Grandstand Forum outlining his case and asking other subscribers for their support, but his messages were erased by AOL almost as quickly as they were written.
Yes, Celia thought, despite all his grandstanding and politics, he cares too.
Keeping on the move, he reloaded a single round and aced another officer in the grandstand, starting a riot in the attendees.
It was just a ballyard, like hundreds of other minor-league parks he’d been through: covered grandstand, bleachers out in back of left and right, advertisements pasted on the boards of the outfield fences—faded, peeling, tattered advertisements now, because nobody in Hot Springs was advertising much of anything these days.
Regretfully Blisters peeled off from the quarry, and returned to the throng in the comforting shadows under the grandstand.
Shasa never missed an interception, nor mis-hit a stroke during the first five chukkas, and once even took the ball out from under the nose of Blaine's pony with a display of audacious riding that brought every person in the grandstand to their feet.
We were at Los Alamitos, I dropped the old guy through the grandstand.
So he was whirlybirding down Biscayne Boulevard toward the grandstand and the network TV lights when a Miami policeman stopped him.
A brand-new access road now linked the highway to the eastern side of the flying field where a hundred Korean craftsmen were building a wooden grandstand with boxes at the front for the two domain-lords and the other top VIPs and several tiers of benches for those of inferior rank.
Am I to be offered, shall we say, a grandstand seat when the balloon goes up?
At practice he stayed up in the tower or sat alone in the last row of benches in the small grandstand section used during the baseball season.